Thank you so much!! it definitely helped that I had a sacrificial old computer to try it out on, I don't think I'd be as comfortable, like, on my main laptop 😂 it's not so bad though! Most installers have a troubleshoot feature in their main menu which I only discovered after spending hours going through different solutions where I had to like edit installation files 😔

Oh that's wonderful! Whose birthdays did you celebrate :D

And thank you <3 I need to hold fast to that decision regardless of what happens, I think. I will offer my support in other ways.